Interactive Architecture Brainstorming

a. What area of the school could really benefit by coming alive?

An area of the school that could really benefit by coming alive would be the bottom of the stairs by the gym or the SAC hall.

b. How could this space be brought to life? (ex. what kind of theme? lights, sounds,textures?)

This space could be brought to life by the use of LED lights on the floor.  The lights would be lit when someone steps on the ground.  This start in the Gym hall and lead into the gym.  It would also display slogans such as "Go SHHS!" and would act as a disco ball for school dances.  The lights could change for the different sports, change from badminton court to futsal.  It could interact with music played in between quarters of basketball etc.

c. What would the message of this space be? What will this piece of art create a conversation with the viewer? How will your interactive piece be especially important for teenagers and our Catholic community?
The message of this space would be to encourage exitement and community with the schoool.  The purpose would to encourage students to get greater involoved and exited about the school.  It would encourage a greater community within the schoool because everyone would be able to interact with the piece but would be encouraged to interact with eachother by encouraging those who play sports, go to school dances and even play sports themselves.

d. How would the viewer be able to interact with your piece of art? The viewer would be able to interact with their piece of art because if you simply walking through the gym, the lights would light up your way.  It would show cheers and courts (instead of having them painted on the gym floor).    It would also be able to play and interact with playing music.

Part 6: Creating the Base for an Original Portfolio

Mood Board For My Portfolio

Interactive Architecture Examples Reflecting

Monomyths: Reflect on what is your favourite piece of the group and why.
My favourite piece in the house was the mirror that recorded their actions and played it slightly after the person had done them.  This allows the viewer to look into the past as they do actions.  It looked almost magical doing something and being able to see it as you did the next movement.  I like this piece because it lets viewers to interact and tell their own story and also see it.  I would almost say the art isn't the piece, but the stories and actions people do, record and view.
Luminous Ceiling: How do you think this could be considered a piece of interactive architecture?This could be considered a piece of interactive architecture because it takes the viewer to another place.  Although the viewer doesn't interact with this piece by talking, touching or hearing it interacts with the onlooker interacts with the piece by looking.  By looking the viewer is able to be taken to another place and to feel as if they have stepped into a whole new world.  The viewer interacts with it by allowing the piece to take them somewhere else.

Ocean of Light: How do you think this could be considered a piece of art?
I think the LED lights in this piece as quite beautiful.  It reminds me of scuba diving in the Ocean.  Being deep in the sea and seeing the beautiful sea creatures.  I think this could be considered a piece of art as it is an expression of someones experiences.  It takes the audience to whole other place and into the creator's world, deep in the sea.

Culture Jammer Reflection

TECHNICAL
For this assignment I used different opacity, a variety of sizes of images, dodged and burned the images, I used different filters, and I changed a lot of colours, saturation's and hues.  I also used the blur, brushes and the band aid tool.  I changed the person's skin tone and I changed the colour variations to have the same tone and theme throughout the image.

IDEA OR CONCEPT
I used the idea against Tim Horton's of showing them as a corporation which uses slaves to grow and or pick their coffee beans.  I used this as they are non fair trade coffee. I showed this by showing coffee beans in the background, a boy with a basket of coffee beans, hands reaching out of a Tim Horton's coffee pot into cup.  My idea stayed relatively the same throughout the process of creating this image, I wanted to show the story of the coffee growers through a spoof ad for Tim Horton's.  I had the idea of showing more, with a greater opacity the boy.  I decided to change this, showing the disappearance of his story and life.

INFLUENCES
My influences in creating this image was ad busters.  The advertisements I saw which were created by them were interesting and made me want to create an image which went against the grain of the regular culture.  I liked how the images were all different and made fun of our everyday advertisements.

COMPOSITION
The composition of my image is asymmetrical.  The movement throughout the image, begins at the coffee pot, being poured into a coffee mug to the boy and up to the text.  Then back the coffee pot.  Their is emphasis on the pot, mug and arms because they have a greater opacity.  The lesser opacity against the greater opacity creates emphasis and greater importance than others.

MOTIVATION
My personal motivation for creating this piece was to be able to think differently about society.  I wanted to explore being able to create an advertisement which looked very much like a Tim Horton's advertisement, but being a spoof ad.

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT
The elements I find most successful is the arms reaching out of the coffee mug and the coffee beans as the background.  I also like how the font looks like a legitimate Tim Horton's advertiseing font.  What I found surprisingly difficult was making the arms looking realistic like they were actually in the coffee.   With addional time, I would choose to improve the look of the arms.

Ad Buster

Culture Jammer Brainstorming

Companies/Corporations to create my own culture jam:
Tim Horton's: slave labour picking beans (non Fair Trade Certified coffee)
Estée Lauder: perfume products created with harmful killing chemicals
Aeropostale: Clothing with only the brand name on it brands the consumer.

Analysis Culture Jammer Advertisements

This advertising is under minding McDonald's and is directed towards the audience of those who consume or who may consume McDonald's products.  It uses the McDonald's colours and the text which says "Eat Fast, Die Young".  This message refers to the unhealthy food choices which are offered by McDonald's.  It is telling the advertisement the food you consume may cause an early death, lead from an unsupported, over-consumed  body and mind.  The advertisement was successful in creating a clear, strong message.

This advertisement subverts Nike clothing by re-writing the slogan of 'Just do it'.  The advertisement is advertising how buying and wearing the clothing made by Nike is much like following the heard and not being an individual.  In the advertisement they create imagery by having a picture of sheep in background.  The target audience for this ad would be consumers, specifically those who may think of buying Nike products.  It asks the consumer to think of why they are buying these products before doing so.  This contains a clear, understood message.  The ad could be improved by keeping the all capital font with the "baa" at the end.

 This advertisement subverts GAP clothing company.    It shows the GAP logo across a person's head, creating imagery and making referring to acting brainlessly (having a gap in your head instead of a brain).  The message in this advertisement would be that in buying GAP products not only are you simply following others in the crowd but acting without thought.  The target audience would be consumers.  It conveys a clear strong message.

  

 This advertisement subverts McDonald's.  It is created giving the image of a destroyed animal head.  This advertisement is telling consumers of the cruelty towards animals which occurs to create the food for McDonald's food products.  The text in the image says: "Do you want fries with that?  McDonald's. Cruelty to go."  This is strong words which conveys the strong message against a big corporate company.   This text seems to add a sort of dry humour also.  The advertisement was successful in communicating its strong message.

  

Photography

3D Post Apocalyptic Scene: Reflection

TECHNICAL:
In my 3D image I changed a lot of layer opacity, filters, hue, saturation and brushes.  I  used shapes and brushes to add details and textures.

IDEA OR CONCEPT:
I wanted to display the destruction left after an apocalypse.  I didn't want to show much of the reconstruction of society after an apocalypse but rather the low society first comes to before it is able to move forward.  I first thought I would show the beginning of the reconstruction which would show more hope, but as I began to work, I did not end up doing so.  I had trouble with developing a scene of hope or of the future after the apocalypse.

INFLUENCES:
The art which influenced this piece would be Tyler Brett and Tony Romano.  They have created art and put together a book of their post- apocalyptic world.  They used technology we have today such as cars, to create their work. Their pieces mainly show the world after the apocalypse, unlike my piece.

COMPOSITION
My piece's composition is asymmetrical and off balance.  The viewers eyes move around the piece with the different levels of 3D (With the front sitting in front (red), the middle ground being green and yellow and the background being blue, sinking in the back the most.)Your eyes also move in circle, beginning in the bottom, with red road and move up  to the right, where there is walking people and graffiti.  Your eyes follow the buildings above and over to the robot and planet then to the other buildings ad back to the road.  I put emphasis  on the road and destroyed buildings by making them in brighter colours.  This works with the movement in the piece as they are the two things which are looked at the most when looking at the image.

MOTIVATION
My motivation in finishing this assignment was to successfully create a 3D image.  I had difficulty in creating the 3D images for practise so, I was scared and excited about creating a scene which was 3D.
 
CRITICAL ASSESSMENT
What I like about this image is is the fact that the image was actually 3D and pops out from the screen.  What I also find successful is the textures within the piece such as the cracks in the road and paint on the blue sky.  I also like the use of line and shapes near the robot, it gives it more a look of lasers.   With more time I would change the awkward transition between the colours (from red to green and green to blue).

3D Post Apocalyptic Scene

Part 5: What is a Conceptual Portfolio Design?

I found this portfolio very creative and different in order to scroll throught the portfolio I had to scroll by placing my cursor either to the left or right.  While scrolling through I found the buttons which said 'identity', 'web' and 'about'. 

This portfolio is different from others because it is uses the idea of a bookshelf .  It is easy to use but it uses a more creative and colourful approch to their portfolio then a professinal portfolio. 

I like the look of this portfolio.  It is vibrant with the bright colours and creative design but, it also is easy to navigate through.  It display one theme but it doesn't distract from the work.

 This portfolio had a lot of vibrant colours which exploded off the screen.  It was very different and unique but not overbearing.  It had music playing and the theme colour was different as you scrolled down.

I found this porfolio creative it had a drawing repeated on what was to look like paper pieces in different colours.  This site had music playing and was easy to navigate through.   

Part 4: What is a professional potfolio design?

 This portfolio is professional because it is highly functional and easy to get around in it.  The typography is very clear and the colours are very light.  The layout is well balanced and there is a clear identity though out the site (Matthew Carin logo which doesn't move in the top left corner).

 This portfolio, although contain more colour, uses soft colours and the large image- which changes display their work.  This site was easy to use and used fonts which were very clear.  Their identity was easy to find and it did not change across the site.

This portfolio is simple and elegant.  It is professional looking because of the light colour, which balances well with the dark brown colour used. The layout is well balanced, also by using the colour to the left. The portfolio focuses on their work.

This portfolio is professional, eventhough it used a very dark black background.  Because this portfolio only uses the two colours, it makes simplistic and usable.  There is a clear identity throughout the site and it uses a clear typography which is easy to read.

I thought this portfolio was professional looking even though it's background and colours are louder than other professional portfolios.  It had a clear identity through out the site and it was well balanced.  I found it very use able and the typography very readable and simple.

Post Apocalyptic World: Brainstoming

1. I think possible ways the world could end are various natural disasters leaving our world destroyed and few survivors, or a technology revolt in which technology would become so advanced it would destroy us ( robots and such technology we have created would have the power to take power over us.  Ultimately they would be able to destroy us in the future).  Our creations would begin to turn against the creators and destroy the world around us.  The world would technically end by a war between robots/technology vs. humans.  I think the environment around us would have to take many  explosions, leaving a lot of destroyed, charred buildings, not a lot of nature left.

2.  An aspect I think I would like to show in my piece of art would be the destruction left behind in this post-apocalyptic world.  I would like to show the debris and destruction left from the world. I would like to set this in city landscape rather than country and the impact would be greater.

3. Things I think would survive my apocalypse are:  buildings, technological items that we have today, such as vehicles, a bit of nature (not a lot of plants would be well- sustained), the Internet, few humans and people with power, robots, charred buildings, debris, strong buildings or great buildings of the world (Taj Mahal, Vatican)- perhaps only parts of them though, not many, but some fields to maintain the remaining humans.

4. After looking at T&T and Onward Future I think that, although their pieces look very simplistic, complexity within their pieces comes from what it represents and the planning of the pieces. I like the creativity by using things that we already have in our society and the bizarreness of their created world.  .Their art appeals to others because it has a futuristic theme and because it makes you imagine what a post-apocalyptic world what look like.